It’s Balikatan (“shoulder-to-shoulder”) season for Washington and Manila. Over the last two weeks, 14,000 troops from the United States, Philippines, Australia, and Japan have been taking part in the ...

After the serenity of Baisaran Valley near Pahalgam in Indian-held Kashmir was shattered last week by a brutal attack, the urgent need is not only collective mourning but honest reflection. But ...

If Donald Trump hopes that looming port penalties on Chinese-built and/or owned ships will have the desired effect of reviving America’s ailing shipyards, he is certain to be disappointed. “We’re way, ...

As Donald Trump set about to single-handedly reorganise global trade and supply chain flows, only one headline seems to have given him pause. In times of market stress US Treasuries are the safe haven ...

The condolence messages were immediate and unqualified. Hours and days after the horrific 22 April attack at Pahalgam in India – where terrorists based and trained in Pakistan, according to Indian ...

Tensions between Indians and Pakistanis over Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) have flared again after Resistance Front terrorists murdered 25 tourists near the picturesque town of Pahalgam last week. The ...

Chinese ship visits to Australia don’t always generate alarm and controversy. Visits by Chinese scientific research vessels are also a reminder that the benefits of such visits might also prove ...

Whether Donald Trump’s new world requires a Plan B revision to Australia’s security strategy or simply a continuation of flexibility, it’s hard to deny that something important has happened. Either ...

It’s 2025, yet we’re still talking about Southeast Asian countries as outposts – spheres of influence, in wonk speak – for imperial influence. Ten years since the great power competition framework ...

It is hard not to spare a thought for economists at the International Monetary Fund, required to produce a global economic outlook in the eye of the deglobalisation being pursued by the Trump ...

Caroline Wang is the China Analyst at Climate Energy Finance. Her research covers current trends and policies in China’s green energy statecraft and their strategic implications for Australia.

Who would have thought? Albert Hirschman, a 20th century German political economist, is having a belated “moment”. Overdue and welcome as this may be, analysts are poring over his 1945 book National ...